英汉词典

tick 基本解释

• vt. 标记号于；滴答地记录
• n. 滴答声；扁虱；记号；赊欠
• vi. 发出滴答声；标以记号
• n. (Tick)人名；(匈、芬)蒂克

tick 词态变化

tick 中文词源

拟声词，模仿钟表滴答声，后引申词义打勾。

tick 英文词源

tick

tick: English now has no fewer than four distinct words tick in general use. The oldest, tick ‘mite’ [OE], comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *tik-, which may be related to Armenian tiz ‘bug’. Tick ‘sound of a clock, mark of correctness, etc’ [13] originally meant broadly ‘light touch, tap’; its modern uses are secondary and comparatively recent developments (‘sound of a clock’ appears to have evolved in the 16th century, and ‘mark of correctness’ did not emerge until the 19th century). Tickle [14] is probably a derivative. Tick ‘mattress case’ [15] was borrowed from Middle Dutch tēke, which went back via Latin thēca to Greek thékē ‘cover, case’.

And tick ‘credit’ [17] (as in on tick) is short for ticket.
=> tickle; ticket

tick (n.1)

parasitic blood-sucking arachnid animal, Old English ticia, from West Germanic *tik- (cognates: Middle Dutch teke, Dutch teek, Old High German zecho, German Zecke "tick"), of unknown origin, perhaps from PIE *deigh- "insect." French tique (mid-15c.), Italian zecca are Germanic loan-words.

tick (n.2)

mid-15c., "light touch or tap," probably from tick (v.) and cognate with Dutch tik, Middle High German zic, and perhaps echoic. Meaning "sound made by a clock" is probably first recorded 1540s; tick-tock as the sound of a clock is recorded from 1845.

tick (v.)

early 13c., "to touch or pat," perhaps from an Old English verb corresponding to tick (n.2), and perhaps ultimately echoic. Compare Old High German zeckon "to pluck," Dutch tikken "to pat," Norwegian tikke "touch lightly." Meaning "make a ticking sound" is from 1721. Related: Ticked; ticking.

To tick (someone) off is from 1915, originally "to reprimand, scold." The verbal phrase tick off was in use in several senses at the time: as what a telegraph instrument does when it types out a message (1873), as what a clock does in marking the passage of time (1777), to enumerate on one's fingers (1899), and in accountancy, etc., "make a mark beside an item on a sheet with a pencil, etc.," often indicating a sale (by 1881, from tick (n.2) in sense "small mark or dot"). This last might be the direct source of the phrase, perhaps via World War I military bureaucratic sense of being marked off from a list as "dismissed" or "ineligible." Meaning "to annoy" is recorded by 1971.

tick (n.3)

"credit," 1640s, shortening of ticket (n.).

tick 词组搭配

tick 英文释义

1. a metallic tapping sound;

"he counted the ticks of the clock"

2. any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

3. a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.;

"as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name"

4. a light mattress

tick 双语例句

1. He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock.

他坐在那儿，听着落地式大摆钟嘀嗒作响。

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2. I wound up the watch and listened to it tick.

我给表上紧发条，听着它嘀嗒作响。

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3. He wanted to find out what made them tick.

他想搞清楚他们为什么会那样。

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4. Abdel felt free to tick him off for smoking too much.

阿卜杜勒动辄责骂他抽烟太凶。

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5. Just hang on a tick, we may be able to help.

稍等一会儿，我们或许能帮上忙。

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tick 实用场景例句

In the silence we could hear the clock ticking.

寂静中，我们能听到钟表滴答作响。

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While we waited the taxi's meter kept ticking away.

我们等候时，出租汽车的计程器一直在滴答滴答地走着。

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a ticking bomb

滴答作响的定时炸弹

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Please tick the appropriate box.

请在适合的方框内打钩。

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Tick ‘yes ’ or ‘no ’ to each question.

在每个问题的“是”或“否”旁打钩。

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I've ticked the names of the people who have paid.

我在已付款者的姓名旁画了钩。

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This is a movie that ticks all the boxes.

这是一部适合众人口味的影片。

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I've never really understood what makes her tick.

我从未真正弄懂她为什么这么做。

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I had to get to the airport by two, and the minutes were ticking away.

我必须在两点前赶到机场，但是时间一分一秒地过去了。

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The clock ticked away the minutes.

钟表显示时间一分一秒地过去。

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Just keep things ticking over while I'm away.

在我外出期间，维持现状就行。

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Put a tick in the appropriate box if you would like further information about any of our products.

如想进一步了解我们任何产品的情况，请在适当的方框内打钩。

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a tick bite

蜱叮咬之处

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The only sound was the soft tick of the clock.

唯一的响声是钟表轻轻的滴答声。

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Hang on a tick!

等一会，别挂断电话！

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I'll be with you in two ticks.

我马上就来。

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Can I have these on tick ?

我可以赊购这些东西吗？

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His exercise books were full of well deserved red ticks...

他的练习本上尽是些红钩钩，都是他应得的。

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Place a tick in the appropriate box.

在相应的方框里打钩。

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Please tick this box if you do not wish to receive such mailings...

如果你不想收到此类邮件，请在这个方框里打钩。

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As each boy said yes, he ticked their name.

随着男孩们依次答到，他在他们的名字旁打了钩。

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A wind-up clock ticked busily from the kitchen counter.

一只上了弦的钟在厨房的案子上嘀嗒响个不停。

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He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock.

他坐在那儿，听着落地式大摆钟嘀嗒作响。

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Just hang on a tick, we may be able to help...

稍等一会儿，我们或许能帮上忙。

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I'll be back in a tick...

我马上就回来。

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He wanted to find out what made them tick...

他想搞清楚他们为什么会那样。

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I'm interested in how people tick.

我对人们的所思所想很感兴趣。

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...chemicals that destroy ticks and mites...

杀灭蜱和螨虫的化学品

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Tick bites can cause Lyme disease.

被蜱叮咬会引发莱姆病。

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